Meet Owen - Year 9

Hi I am Owen in Year 9.

Music is my passion; I play fiddle, mandolin, and trumpet. My main instrument is fiddle and I
play both classical and folk music. At the moment I’m concentrating on Irish
folk music, although I also play sevdah, American and gypsy.

I love my music, especially the spontaneity of an Irish
session. This year, I’m hoping to go to Ireland for the third time and take
part in an Irish music summer school.

Every month, I co-present a folk radio show on Chapel FM,
where I discuss and play my favourite music.

At school, I am very interested in history, in particular
the Russian Revolution and the history of politics.

I also enjoy creative writing, drama and performing spoken
word.

Thanks to Mr. Findlay and his chess club, I was able to gain
the title of U12s Supremo of the North Yorkshire and ended up in the last 2000
of 56000 entries nationally. The competition was quite stressful but I enjoyed
playing and would recommend it to anyone.

Along with Shabrina Warastri, I lead the Digital Innovators
strand of Student Leadership. At the moment, we are working to replace Frog,
the school VLE, with a more productive system; leading a coding club for
primary school and eventually replacing our paper planners with digital
planners for all.

If you would like to join the Digital Innovators, then
please ask me, Shabrina or Miss Amin in F03 for details.